—Lancaster Firming, Saturday. March 6. 1976
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Fertilizer
IConi—ii Itmi f«p I
•re tying up ■ good portion of
the car*. If the traditional
rush on fertiliser develops
later this month and through
April, may
become bottlenecked
because of the lack of
transportation. But it won’t
be a matter of supplies not
being available. They’ll be in
good supply, and prices are
even 30 to 50 per cent lower
than those of a year ago.
Roup noted that 1974
fertiliser use was down for
the first time since 1960. He
believes that now, with
lowered prices and in
creased supplies, “we have
an economic Incentive to run
the industry on a business
like effort”
The seemingly good news
does not have farmers
leaping onto their trucks to
pick up fertilizer, however.
Apparently, for whatever
reasons, many farmers are
offering substantial
resistance to ordering their
fertilizer needs. Some rue
reportedly holding back
because they feel the high
prices and shortages of
previous years were con
trived.
Roup said fertilizer
production plants are
mushrooming all over the
world. In nitrogen produc
tion, for example, the world
presently has 98 firms winch
produce 65-million or more
tons per year. Reports in
dicate that 120 more plants of
this size are now on the
drawing board —lB of which
are in Russia and 13 in Red
China.
The growth of the fertilizer
industry, and its pattern, is
likely to change our
“traditional” supply picture
in years to come, Roup
claimed. He described the
phenomenal expansion of
nitrogen-producing firms as
“unrealistic,” and possibly
Leb.
conserv.
planned
George Wolff, chairman of
the Lebanon County Con
servation District, an
nounces conservation
planning meetings to be held
March 9,1976 at Cedar Crest
High School, Vo-Ag
Department and March 16,
1976 at Annville Cleona High
School Vo-Ag Department.
These meetings will show
landowners what is involved
in conservation planning.
Karl Hellerick, Soil
Conservation Service and
Clair Gerberich, Lebanon
County Conservation
District, will assist the
landowners in planning their
land.
Practices such as crop
rotation, strip cropping,
contour farming, crop
residue management, or
cover crops will be tLscussed
there Other practices in
clude diversions, sod
waterways, drainage
systems, or critical area
stabilization. New
cooperators and old
cooperators are invited to
the meetings. Each
cooperator receives a copy
of his soil survey and an
aerial photo of his land.
could lead to higher prices.
He sees America as
becoming less important in
production and use of
nitrogen while undeveloped
nations, notably Russia and
China, are recording great
increases. A tight supply,
“but no shortage,” is seen by
1900-81 due to this increased
use abroad.
"Phosphorus is very
adequate,” Roup continued.
He sees a 90 per cent In
crease in demand by 1900.
The only cloudy situation
as far as supplies are con
cerned involves potash and
the Canadian government
which controls more than
three-quarters of the potash
used in' the United States.
Roup and representatives
from other companies claim
that supplies are adequate
now, but this could change at
any time if Canada wishes to
cut its exports.
Max Maichele, Ortho
agronomist, was the second
speaker chi the program
which was held at the
Meadow Hills Restaurant
near New Danville. He gave
several pointers which would
be conducive to maximizing
returns from fertilizer in
verm ents. They are: <
Earlier planting dates and
shallower planting depth.
Besides lowering yields with
late plantings, corn planted
in June or late May is also
much more susceptible to
moisture stress. Maichele
also recommends that
farmers plant above in
tended populations to ac
count for germination losses,
and use a good starter fer
tilizer to speed growth. He
cautions that fertilizers not
be placed too close to the
seed, lest they be damaged.
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groups and any other in
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county to take advantage of
the opportunity to beautify
their property at the special
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Three year old seedlings
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cost of six for |l.OO or 100 for
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